FRANZ KLINE'S TIME

Seized with action painting
in a fire escape of speech
genius sparkles its color
in shades of tempera
from a rolling technique
in a cerulean variation
each painting an art event for us
we reaching Franz Kline's time
in masterpieces stark and unique
watching for his dark canvas
moving geometric devices
in avant garde spaces
shining on its bordered surface
of a figurative calligraphic scene
in a reunion with Frank O'Hara
his wise collaborator and curator
in 21 poems and etchings
of a Sixties safekeeping disguise
with a ruse of a new style
in an abstract deposited tease
of a figurative anarchic device
not brushing off petrified reality
which in every artist projects
his own personal kvetching
yet he knows he a recluse inside
into his admiration's emergence
though a sanguine public creator
oriented as any poet
in vocalization's irony
positioning an awareness
in his black and white immediacy
from a realization at his intervals
influencing a panoramic style
as any exile seeking recognition
transplanted in a reinvented mind
and avant-garde memory
experiencing our reviewed perception
motioning each private reaction
to eviscerating war's horrific wanton
and demonically teaching dramas
of spontaneous happenings
with Kline's ability of expressionism
and a draftsman 's opening up
his anonymous supreme gentility
in a sensual confidential light.